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NGPF Speaker Series: Gunjan Banerji on Why Investing Feels Like Gambling & What Educators Need to Know About the New Risk Culture

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Thu, Sep 24, 2026

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4:00 pm PST

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FREE

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1 NGPF Academy Credit

NGPF Speaker Series: Join us for a revealing conversation with Gunjan Banerji, Lead Writer for Live Markets at The Wall Street Journal, CNBC contributor, and winner of the 2024 Nellie Bly Award for her reporting on the intersection of gambling and investing. Today's students are coming of age in a market culture unlike anything previous generations faced, one where zero-day options, meme coins, and sports betting apps blur the line between investing and gambling, and where self-described "degen" traders treat high-risk bets as entertainment. Gunjan has covered it all, from leading the Journal's award-winning coverage of the 2021 meme-stock mania to producing the Netflix documentary Eat the Rich about the GameStop frenzy. We'll discuss what her reporting reveals about why young people are drawn to risky trades, the real financial and mental health consequences she's documented, and how educators can talk about speculation honestly, without lecturing, in a way students will actually hear. You'll walk away understanding the forces shaping your students' first encounters with the market and concrete ways to build the lessons they need now.

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